Waxahatchee at Uptown Theater, Kansas City MO (2024-04-18)

Waxahatchee at Uptown Theater- Kansas City MO 2024-04-18) WAXAHATCHEE SETLIST 3 Sisters Evil Spawn Ice Cold Can’t Do Much Problem With It (Plains song) The Eye Hell Right Back To It Burns Out At Midnight Bored Lone Star Lake Crimes of the Heart Line of Sight (Plains song) Witches Crowbar Ruby Falls The Wolves Hurricane (Plains song) Lilacs Tigers Blood ENCORE Oxbow Farewell Transmission (with Kevin Morby) 365 Fire Waxahatchee Waxahatchee is headlining the Triple Rock Social Club this Friday. The duo’s latest album Out in the Storm is available on Merge Records. Cayetana and Snail Mail will open. ....

“I won't end up anywhere good without you, I need your love too” – “Lillacs” by Waxahatchee

One of our favorite adopted acts, Katie Crutchfield aka Waxahatchee, originally from Birmingham, AL, but a Kansas City resident for several years now, played the opening night of her tour in front of a thrilled and crowded Uptown Theater.

Crutchfield is arguably in the prime of her career, having made two highly acclaimed recent solo albums (2020’s Saint Cloud and March’s Tigers Blood, on Anti- Records) as well as an equally received 2022 collaboration with Jess Williamson called Plains (who we caught live both in Minneapolis and KC)

As a result of those recent successes (and raves from the likes of Pitchfork), she’s multiplied her fan base exponentially since we started seeing her live, and even the most casual area music fans have been paying attention. She even pays homage to the local region on the new record’s “Lone Star Lake”, set at one of two man-made lakes, in nearby Douglas County.

These newest songs were rightfully showcased as part of her set of two-dozen selections, even working in several songs from the 2022 Plains collaboration.

With a remarkably tight band (Spencer [son of Jeff] Tweedy, Eliana Athayde, Colin Croom, Clay Frankel and Cole Berggren) and an audience on her side from the very first notes, it was clear that this was to be a special evening for all.

Towards the end of the main set, she professed her love for her adopted hometown, dedicating 2020’s “Lilacs” to the metro itself, before ending the main set with the new record’s title track.

The four-song encore began with “Oxbow” from Saint Cloud (its lyrics set in Barcelona, not MN) and as somewhat expected, Crutchfield’s partner and acclaimed singer-songwriter in his own right, Kevin Morby appeared from side stage.

The pair would duet and harmonize together on “Farewell Transmission”, a somewhat deep 2003 cut from The Magnolia Electric Co. side project Songs: Ohia, with its haunting lyrical chorus, “I will try and know whatever I try, I will be gone, but not forever.”

The encore continued with the sparse and compelling “365” from the new record (initially written for Wynonna Judd…!) and the evening would end with 2020 fan-favorite, “Fire” with Crutchfield singing, “I could iron out the edges of the darkest sky, for some of us it ain't enough, it ain't enough” and it wasn’t enough for the hometown crowd, who applauded and cheered for more, even as the house lights went up.

Melbourne Australia indie duo (Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons) Good Morning opened the show, celebrating their tenth year together as a band and traveling halfway around the world in support of their just-released seventh record, 'Good Morning Seven' a double album they describe as “filled with strings, synths, samples, and singing”. 

 

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WAXAHATCHEE TOUR DATES 

NORTH AMERICA ONE apr 21 the majestic theatre detroit, mi apr 23 massey hall toronto, on apr 25 toad's place new haven, ct apr 26 orpheum theatre boston, ma apr 27 brooklyn paramount brooklyn, ny apr 28 the national richmond, va apr 30 the orange peel asheville, nc may 1 ryman auditorium nashville, tn may 3 jannus live st. petersburg, fl may 4 the beacham orlando, fl may 5 shaky knees festival atlanta, ga may 6 the lyric theatre birmingham, al may 8 cain's ballroom tulsa, ok may 9 tannahill's tavern/music hall fort worth, tx may 10 the heights theater houston, tx may 11 acl live at the moody theater austin, tx may 13 the van buren phoenix, az may 14 the observatory north park san diego, ca may 16 hollywood palladium los angeles, ca may 17 barrelhouse brewing co. paso robles, ca may 18 fox theater oakland, ca may 19 gundlach bundschu winery sonoma, ca may 21 the depot salt lake city, ut may 23 the mission ballroom denver, co

EUROPE / UK jul 11 paradiso amsterdam, netherlands jul 12 gebäude 9 cologne, germany jul 13 mojo club hamburg, germany jul 14 cactus festival bruges, belgium jul 15 festsaal kreuzberg berlin, germany jul 17 club manufaktur schorndorf, germany jul 18 poolbar festival feldkirch, austria jul 19 acoustic lakeside festival sittersdorf, austria jul 21 bogen f zürich, switzerland jul 22 la maroquinerie paris, france jul 24 chalk, brighton brighton, uk jul 25 o2 forum kentish town london, uk jul 26 latitude festival southwold, england jul 27 new century hall manchester, uk jul 29 irish centre leeds, uk jul 30 queen margaret union glasgow, scotland jul 31 the belfast empire music hall belfast, uk aug 1 vicar street dublin, ireland

NORTH AMERICA TWO aug 16 orpheum theatre vancouver, bc aug 17 pioneer courthouse square portland, or aug 18 woodland park zoo seattle, wa aug 19 treefort music hall boise, id aug 21 washington's fort collins, co aug 23 the pageant st louis, mo aug 24 the sylvee madison, wi aug 25 bell's beer garden kalamazoo, mi aug 26 the warhol at carnegie hall pittsburgh, pa aug 28 beacon theatre new york, ny aug 29 tree house brewing deerfield, ma aug 30 state theatre portland, me aug 31 arrowood farms accord, ny sep 1 stone pony summer stage asbury park, nj sep 4 ting pavilion charlottesville, va sep 6 wolf trap vienna, va sep 7 the fillmore philadelphia, pa sep 8 the fillmore philadelphia, pa

 

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